So the server is down for the night, better do some gear research. My hunter just hit 77 so i haven’t even started the gear grind yet, but its good to have some kind of idea what to look for.
Anyway Here goes, I have listed the initial obtainable gear from just quest rewards and getting faction gear, and a few PVP pieces. I really just prefer PVP rather than just maxxing the DPS in PVE. So these are obviously a good place to start for gear and not best of the best, I can list this later on if anyone wants it . Anyway its a good place to start. I found a great site that you can punch in your class and spec and it will show u all the best items for you spec and the most popular Gems and Enchants to get as well, its at MaxDps.com
Anyway on with the gear listings (Hunter BiS List, for starters), this should keep you busy rep grinding and PVP’ing for a while…:
Consider the fact that you can get Acorn of the Daughter Tree from The Guardians of Hyjal upon leaving Mount Hyjal and, at the time of writing this, you can get Sweet Perfume Broach through spamming the Royal Crown queue. While not as good, you save yourself a huge chunk of coin for 13 ilvls of stats and if you’re in a good raiding guild, you’ll potentially have access to Necklace of Strife which is BiS prior to heroics for some classes.
It makes me wonder if dumping anything north of 10 – 15k is worth it simply because it’s purple.
Every now and then…in a very great while…you get lucky in WoW.
I was browsing through the Auction House while waiting for a Guild raid invite.
Armor > Miscellaneous > Neck, Epic filter, search. Don Rodrigo’s Fabulous Necklace pops up, with a buyout price of 3K. I did a double take, clicked it to make sure that I wasn’t seeing things, and bought it immediately. Reforged haste to hit, equipped, got my invite and entered Blackwing Descent very, very happy.
Id probably get one of those buckle’s that go on the belts as well so you can chuck an extra gem in there. There usually pretty cheap depending on your server. Can find them on auction house for about 50-100g or so. Creates a prismatic socket.
Must keep concentrating on gear action … Gets boring writing up all this stuff after a while, ah well nearly there!
Here i would take the AP over the Agility as it actually ads more to the DPS. So go the Dragon Scale Leg armor if you can afford it Last i checked they were around 500-700 gold. your already gonna have a ton of stam anyway, and more DPS usually wins the fight. but if you feel that you really need the stam hit, then take the extra stam, and tank it.
Now i like the speed increase as much as anyone, but i think it equals about 1% faster walking / running speed, so just take the Agil if you dont really care about running faster, DPS wise the Major agility enchant wins, but if you find it useful take the Assassins Step.
If your PVPing a lot and need the anti stun trinket, get this one as well as one of the ones listed below. Or if your hard core just get 2 of the following.
Now i havent listed any of the epic PVP gear just yet, as its not really that easily obtinable. But i will list the epic bow here as its one of the best ranges weaps in the game, and you can actually get it by just getting an arena team together and just running a few arenas each week should get you a couple of hundred points and on your way to a nice shiney epic bow, gun or xbow (all the same stats) Just depends what you prefer the look of.
This is probably the one ill end up with for a while, as i dont really like guns, just too noisy really… Anyway this one is available as a rep reward after just doing a few (lot)… tol barads and dailies.
If you want something to hold you over til you can get one of the above, this sometimes sells in AH pretty cheap really, about 500-700 gold usually is a good price guide, but some people just have to crank up the price. Anyway, this is a nice bow as well.
Its actually harder than you think to find the best place to farm herbs. I have found a couple for you listed below. Now some of these herbs are going for more than 100g per stack, and you can get a stack worth in about 10 minutes if you just follow these maps.
Wild Steelbloom – Northern STV or Northern Stranglethorn
Has over 250 Nodes here! you should be able to farm this stuff witin a few minutes per stack easy. Esp if you have a epic flyer . Other locations for this are
As my gear is currently so … not cool on the mage. I was thinking of leveling alchemy again.
I already have herbalism leveled all the way up, so dropping mining will be sad but i got more than enough cash really and herbs still sell quite well on the AH. I found a few Total Matts Needed for powereleveling alchemy, they differ quite a bit i guess cos of the skills changed in Cata. The flasks you can make give you quite a bit of an advantage and you can also mage a nice trinket when you get to max level. So its worth it i think. Flask of Enhancement and Vibrant Alchemist Stone
I made a guide for a guildy who was levelling alchemy. It’s definitely not perfect, but I figured I’d post it since there’s no guide for it here yet. A few notes:
1) I tried to stay away from things like Stranglekelp, Wintersbite, Icecap, etc. They can be a pain to gather, since they are only found in specific locations (especially Wintersbite) 2) For the most part you’ll be skilling on orange recipes. This is because I wanted to be as sure as possible about how many mats were needed. 3) Where it says “approximately xx combines” that means you will be skilling into the yellow-green range, where “exactly xx combines” means it should be orange the whole way. 4) I’m fairly sure I overshot quite a bit on most of the approximate combines, so you may have extra mats. 5) The northrend section can be done quite a few different ways. Feel free to experiment.
Total mats list is at the bottom (I didn’t tally up the vials, I’m assuming you’ll buy those as needed).
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=2330 from 1-60 skill – approximately 70 combines – 70 peacebloom, 70 silverleaf, 70 crystal vial (Raise your alchemy cap)
what can i post while waiting for the server queue to go down… hmm. Well i found some cataclysm images, yeah there not wow related, but they look cool enough
I wonder what i get if i search for hot cataclysm chicks, lets find out
Nope thats def not one.
There we go, but its not really cataclysm related. Ok, ill try cataclysm bikini… (yes i am waisting an hour of my 2 hours (if im lucky) a night that i have for playing wow waiting for the server q. Cleaning up cat spew, also another way to pass the time…
Nope there are no bikinis related to cataclysm. Hmm. Fair enough i spose.
There is a related pic to cataclysm… Auberdine Destroyed i was actually in the middle of leveling my noob mage when it got destroyed, well one night i had logged in and it was the same old boring Auberdine and then the next time i logged in it was all wrecked. Really not sure if i should keep leveling my mage alt, or just go back to the priest tho.
Ill see what pics come up when searching for server full wow queue. mmm,…. bored. Eh 21 minutes to go.
Ah looks like others are having the same issues:
probably old screen shots tho, as its the old classic wrath screen, isnt anyone talking about these dam queues?
Ive never seen this login screen before? any ideas? must be a custom wow wrath version